Advocacy 2.0Creating a New

OS for Advocacy

Carol Anne Costible-Heming, Univ. of North TexasDawn Samples, Lexington School District One, SC

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SCOLT 2013 Birmingham, AL

Essential questions for today

• Identify – What is advocacy?• What builds advocacy on a daily

basis? • What is our vision or goal for

advocating in our schools/districts? • What are our advocacy needs?• What are our advocacy resources?

Goals for today• Identify/discuss what we are already

doing right.• Identify what we might be capable of

doing more of immediately.• Identify what our needs are to make

advocacy more systematic and systemic in our daily operations.

• Walk away with new ideas, a plan and a reflection of our role as advocators for WL’s

Every drop makes a difference…

• What are we currently doing in our school/districts to advocate for our programs? For our profession? For the need to learn another language?

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Poll: Is this your first SCOLT conference?

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What does this data tell us so far about our daily advocacy

practices?

What are our advocacy needs?

Think, pair, share…

• Classroom/student level?• Course recruitment?• Building level?• District level?• Community/parents level?• State? Region? National levels?

Share out

Readily available resources

National Level• JNCL-NCLIS• ACTFL Advocacy Resources• NELL• NADSFL• NCSSFL• US House of Representatives• US SenateSee information from Dr. Bill Rivers, JNCL on SCOLT’s wikispace

(scolt13.wikispaces.com)

Regional Level• SCOLT• Central States Conference on Langua

ge Teaching

(All regional conferences – NECTFL, SWCOLT, etc…)

State Level• AAFLT• AFLTA• FFLA• FLAG• FLANC• FLAVA• KWLA• LFLTA• MFLA

State Level, cont.• SCFLTA• TFLA• TFLTA• Virgin Islands Modern Foreign

Language Association• WVFLTA

Language Specific• AATF• AATG• AATI• AATJ• AATSEEL• AATSP• CLASS• CLTA

What are your successes?

• You have 3 minutes to brainstorm and write down as MANY successes you have had OR HEARD OF, with regard to advocacy at any level.

SHARE OUT

Reflection• What is our vision?• How do we address these

needs?

What is your plan…

• When you walk away from this conference, what will you commit to trying upon your return to advocate for world language?

• Who do you need to contact? • What information do you need to know

more about? • How can SCOLT or your state organization

assist you in this plan?

Q & A

Contact us:• Dawn Samples, Coordinator for World Languages

and Partial Immersion, Lexington School District One, SCo dsamples@lexington1.net

• Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, University of North Texas